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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst

German general

1885 - 1968

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His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2024). Nikolaus von Falkenhorst is the 365th most popular military personnel (up from 388th in 2024), the 191st most popular biography from Poland (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German general in the Second World War. He was most famous for his role in the invasion of Norway in 1940.

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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks #191 among 2,054 people in Pantheon born in Poland, inside the top 10% of that group.

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Among Military Personnels

Among military personnels, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 365 out of 2,188. Before him are Jonas Savimbi, Mark Milley, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Shunroku Hata, Duško Popov, and Boris Shaposhnikov. After him are Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Guillaume Brune, Walther Wenck, Ban Chao, and Paul von Rennenkampf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 39. Before him are Tomoyuki Yamashita, Karl Radek, Sinclair Lewis, Hermann Weyl, Alexander Löhr, and Hugo Sperrle. After him are Erich von Stroheim, Tamara Karsavina, Giacomo Matteotti, Luigi Russolo, Otto Klemperer, and Uzeyir Hajibeyov. Among people deceased in 1968, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 30. Before him are Carl Theodor Dreyer, Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, Neal Cassady, Alexandre Kojève, and Pitirim Sorokin. After him are Howard Florey, Ivan Ribar, Kirill Meretskov, Vasily Sokolovsky, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Lucio Fontana.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 191 out of 2,054. Before him are Piast the Wheelwright (800), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), and Marian Rejewski (1905). After him are Helena Rubinstein (1872), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Daniel Libeskind (1946), Ernst Kummer (1810), and Samuel Reshevsky (1911).

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Among Military Personnels In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 18. Before him are Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Rochus Misch (1917), and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889). After him are Hermann Balck (1893), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Otto von Below (1857), and Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919).

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